Op-Eds

Op-Eds

  1. “Dominant Technology is Harming Women, and Alternatives are Starved for Resources” (2024) Chicago Tribune, October 7, 2024.
  2. “Researchers: ShotSpotter Helps Gunshot Victims Receive Rapid First Aid. Does That Change the Debate?” (2024) Chicago Tribune, September 11, 2024. (with H. Josephson, J. Lopez, and A. Roemer)
  3. “Sexual Assault is the Most Important Problem in Higher Education that No One is Talking About” (2024) Chicago Tribune, September 8, 2024. 
  4. “More Spending Won’t Be Enough to Reduce Chicago’s Gun Violence” (2024) Chicago Tribune, May 15, 2024. 
  5. “We Are Seeing a Lethal Shift in America’s Gun Violence Crisis” (2024) Chicago Tribune, March 24, 2024. (with J. Miller)
  6. “Here’s How Chicago Can Better Connect Domestic Violence Victims With Services” (2023) Chicago Tribune, June 21, 2023. (with R. Graber)
  7. “A New Way to Address Gun Violence You’ve Never Heard Of” (2024) Newsweek, February 8, 2024. (with C. Beck and C. Tillmon)
  8. “America’s Schoolchildren Need an ‘Operation Warp Speed‘” (2023) The Hill, October 29, 2023. (with J. Guryan) 
  9. “For A.I. Companies, Technology is Inherent in Strategy” (2023) Chicago Booth Review, October 20, 2023. (with N. Dharani and S. Mullainathan)
  10. “Better Police Management Can Reduce Violent Crime” (2023) Crain’s New York Business, October 3, 2023. (with K. Corey and M. Kapustin)
  11. “Public Safety Inequality is Growing in Chicago and Across America” (2023) Chicago Tribune, March 27, 2023. 
  12. “To Combat Gun Violence, the US Must Overhaul its Social Safety Net” (2023) CNN, February 16, 2023. (with C. Tillmon). 
  13. “The Dangers of ‘Long COVID Learning Loss’ And How to Fix It” (2023) Newsweek, January 18, 2023. (with M. Bhatt and J. Grossman)
  14. “Is Electronic Monitoring Contributing to Gun Violence? Here’s a Look at the Data” (2023) Chicago Tribune, May 9, 2022. (with A. Arora)
  15. “Getting More Out of Policing in the U.S.” (2022) Vox EU, May 7, 2022. (with M. Kapustin and T. Neumann)
  16. “The Surprising Solution to Gun Violence” (2022) CNN, April 23, 2022.
  17. “Gun Violence is The Crime Problem” (2022), Gotham Gazette, March 3, 2022. (with P.J. Cook)
  18. “Data Points: How the pandemic has accelerated carjackings in Chicago” (2021) Chicago Tribune, June 18, 2021. 
  19. “Data Points: Illegal gun carrying in Chicago spiked in 2020 — and deadly violence followed” (2021) Chicago Tribune, April 2, 2021. 
  20. “Discrimination in the age of algorithms” (2019) Boston Globe, September 24, 2019. (with C.R. Sunstein)
  21. “Sarah Sanders Said Gun Control Can’t Stop Violence. Here’s Why She’s Wrong” (2017) Fortune.com, October 5, 2017. (with M. Nutter)
  22. “Springfield is complicit, too, in Chicago’s rising crime rate” (2017) Crain’s Chicago Business, August 29, 2017. (with L. Speigel)
  23.  “Why half of urban kids dropout” (2014) CNN.com, March 12, 2014. (with J. Guryan)
  24.  “Society, not social scientists, must measure wisdom of new gun law.” (2013) Chicago Sun-Times.
  25. “Proving the dangers of illegal guns.” (2013) Chicago Sun-Times, October 17, 2013
  26. “The real costs of gun crimes.” (2013) The Chicago Tribune, A17.
  27. “How a $50 million safety initiative can leave a national legacy.” (2013) Crain’s Business Chicago.
  28.  “A background check even the NRA could love?” (2013) CNN.com, April 11, 2013. (with P.J. Cook)
  29.  “One way to defeat the NRA.” (2013) CNN.com. January 11, 2013. (with P.J. Cook)
  30. “How to cut gun death toll.” (2011) CNN.com. January 12, 2011 (with P.J. Cook)
  31.  “Five myths about gun control” (2010) Washington Post. June 13, 2010. (with P.J. Cook)